iraq war

If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002.

Robert Novak, who died of brain cancer Tuesday at age 78, is being remembered this afternoon for his long career as a hard-nosed journalist; his much-relished Prince of Darkness persona; and his role in the scandal that found the Bush administration outing CIA operative Valerie Plame in order to discredit her diplomat husband, who [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened the door for the first time Wednesday to the prospect of a U.S. military presence in Iraq after the December 2011 deadline for troop withdrawal set by last year’s bilateral accord — something President Obama appeared to rule out during a joint appearance on Wednesday.

I attended the first half of last night’s National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, bolting (with about half the press corps) after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave a mulligan speech addressing how the party should oppose the president. Phil Klein nails the feeling in the room.
While the crowd reacted positively, their applause [...]

Summer 2003 was the moment, roughly, when the insurgency in Iraq began to coalesce. (Naturally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted no such thing was happening.) Five and a half years later, violence in Iraq has dropped down to the levels of … the beginning of the insurgency. Maj. Gen. David Perkins, a top official with [...]

When Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)  meets on Capitol Hill today with Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, the big question will be whether Lieberman, an ardent John McCain backer, will be cut off entirely from the Democratic caucus. What’s almost certain, though, is that Lieberman will lose his chairmanship of the Senate oversight [...]

I feel compelled to link to The Onion’s hilarious lede today.
From its awesome bit of fake news, entitled, “Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress”:

REEL LIFE
Director Oliver Stone is a decorated Vietnam vet, yet his movie about George W. Bush conveys little sense of the war in Iraq.